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[Terry Smith <t.smith AT aaf.edu.au>]

Hi Martin and Peter,

I have been reviewing your MRDP document which follows the REFEDS 1.1 template to some extent which is great but there are some sections / paragraphs that seem to be missing or have been moved about.  These are highlighted in yellow below. There are some other comments about the document mixed in as well.

If you could provide some commentary would be great.

Section 2  Introduction and Applicability, paragraph 2, second sentence is missing...

This document SHALL be published on the Federation website at: http://www.safeid.sk. Updates to the documentation SHALL be accurately reflected in entity metadata.  

Note: The URL you have provided is that of the Federation website. A reader needs to navigate around to find the actual document. I would prefer to see the URL to the actual document or at least to your policy page where I can easily find the document.

  Section 2  Introduction and Applicability, paragraph 3 is missing...

 

An entity that does not include a reference to a registration policy MUST be assumed to have been registered under an historic, undocumented registration practice regime.  Requests to re-evaluate a given entity against a current MRPS MAY be made to the Federation helpdesk.

Section 3 Member Eligibility and Ownership, paragraph 1 is missing...

Members of the Federation are eligible to make use of the Federation Operator’s registry to register entities. Registration requests from other sources SHALL NOT be accepted.

Note:  The URL in the sentence "The procedure for becoming a member of the Federation is documented at http://www.safeid.sk" is again to the Federation site. I think a link to "How to connect" - https://www.safeid.sk/doku.php?id=join would be much better,

  Section 3 Member Eligibility and Ownership, paragraph 3, second sentence is missing.

The membership procedure verifies that the prospective member has legal capacity, and requires that all members enter into a contractual relationship with the Federation Operator by agreeing to the Federation policy. The Operator makes checks based on the legal name provided. The checks are conducted with a number of official databases (provide examples). 

Note: Example of official database should also be provided.

  Section 3 Member Eligibility and Ownership, paragraph 5, second sentence is missing. 

 The process also establishes a canonical name for the Federation member. The canonical name of a member MAY change during the membership period, for example as a result of corporate name changes or mergers. The member’s canonical name is disclosed in the entity’s SAML v2.0 <md:OrganizationName> element [SAML-Metadata-OS].

Note: These has been moved to Section 5.1 SAML Entity Validation.

Section 5.1 SAML Entity Validation, does not provide information about the process by which a member can register an entity...

The process by which a Federation member can register an entity is described at <url>. 

Section 6 has been merged into section 4 which is fine as all of the content has moved.

Thanks,

Terry.

   

Terry Smith | Technical Engagement and Support Manager | Australian Access Federation Ltd

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 6:20 PM Terry Smith <t.smith AT aaf.edu.au> wrote:

All,

As eduGAIN Chair, I present to you the application of:

• Slovenia / safeID

You can find more detailed information about the federation under "eduGAIN Candidates” at:

    https://technical.edugain.org/status.php

which contains links to their policy and MRPS.

I ask the following federations to specifically review the submission by safeID:

• Canada/Canadian Access Federation (CAF)
• Chile/COFRe
• China/CARSI
• Colombia/ColFIRE
• Croatia/AAIEduHr

These federations might feel a sense of déjà vu. That's because back in June 2015, CAF, COFRe and ColFIRE were part of the assessment of safeID (along with Belnet & CAFe - but they are now working on the CSTCloud assessment I sent recently).

For those with access to the eduGAIN Steering Group mailing list archive you can see the original thread at:

   https://lists.geant.org/sympa/arc/edugain-sg/2015-06/msg00005.html

and
   https://lists.geant.org/sympa/arc/edugain-sg/2017-05/msg00012.html

It would be great to finally end the chapter on the assessment of safeID and complete their eduGAIN membership to support the SANET community.

All eduGAIN members can (and should) provide feedback but the above five (5) federations have a specific responsibility. 

If you have any questions please contact the safeID team (Martin Stanislav and Peter Kopáč) who are subscribed to this mailing list. 

Formal components of the membership process will be via the eduGAIN Steering Group mailing list. 

Thanks,

Terry. 

Terry Smith | Technical Engagement and Support Manager | Australian Access Federation Ltd

Mob:  0414 692 424 | Email t.smith AT aaf.edu.au |  ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5971-4735

Web: http://www.aaf.edu.au | Support: http://support.aaf.edu.au  | Twitter: http://twitter.com/ausaccessfed

Mail: Level 21 179 Turbot Street | Brisbane QLD 4000 | Australia